Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-04-16
NEWS SUMMARY.

A tornado passed over the country
between st. Clairesville, Ohio, and
WheelinF, West Virginia, a distance
CT ten miles, yesterday afternoon. A
funnel. aped cloud, with cone down
wsrd. struck St. Clairsville about
s. Is D. m. and travelled east AID, dc.
molishing houses and leveling trees
aud telegrsph poles. Martins Ferry
suffered more severely than st. Glars.
Vile, and i've persons were injured,
two perhaps fatally. Other casualties
were reported at different points, but
no loss of life. Comparatively little
damage was done in Vince ling, the
to wn being sheltered by high hills.
Thomas Kerr, the new Burgess OF
Plymouth, has been q vigorous re-
former. "He has succeeded in closing
all the SALOONS mud stores and stopping
every kind of business on Sunday"
On Thursday, she ordered the police &c
patrol the streets every night. AS
they are only paid for arrests made
however, they refused" and yesterday
morning he discharged them all. The
citizens, it is raid, ''are greatly excited
lover these acts"
The Inter State Com merce Comro!s
sion has received appeals from bankers
wool dealers, fruiterers. etc, on TIT
Pacific Coast. and the American Sugal
Refining Company Of San Francisco
| asking a Suspension of the fourth eco
ticn of the Interstate Commerce act
Fourteen sugar refipers CT New Yorl
aud Philadelphia will oppose reqaes
from the Pacific Railroads 10 be- re
lieved from the operation Of Section 4
Robert w. Gatewood, aged IS years
IA assistant examiner in the Paten
Offics, committed suicide iu a state
room OF the steamer Virginia, goinl
from Baltimore 10 Norfolk on Thursda,
might. His mind had become uubal
auCed by in tense stuty, and the writ
ings he LETT showed that he imagined
l hims pursued by deucns, and chos
death as the only means OF escape from
them.
l John Vernon, Ion-union man, VIII
went from Huntington 10 McKeespOrt
Pa, to take the place Of locked on
workman ~ Woods iron works, wa
lcsllsd FROM his boarding house OF
Thursday night and severely heaten b,
several rnaians. H5 is sald TO hAv,
ls!nce left the city.
4 MIS-. bS OAu IuieIb uiSI yCettEuAy IL
Lewiston, Maine, from the effects o
Iwine OF colchicum, swallowed th-e
weeks ago Fer husband died from tn
tsame cause on the S:h met. TIE poison
was put up by q druggist in mistak
for port wine.
Ths fatal acc dent at BueDa Visits
colorado, on Friday evening, was III
result c! q premature blss5, not a roc
|, slide, on e railroad cutting SIX me-
we're killed AID seven Others injured
but none fatally.
Il Michael Ksefe, a wife murderer, WI
was to have been hanged yesterday q
iSuisun, California, cat his throat @
IThutsisy morniag with "a pocket knif
and died in q few hours.
1 Benjamin Brown was hanged en- Err
tday ID Ct. Louis for tits murder {
Frank Arnold, committed in Novem
b!r, 1885, with the purpose C; ROBBERY
Jacob Rohrer, a wealthy farmer, va
thaecci cut Of 1000 by TWO "Gors
lshaTpe.s in Ii caster P, ar.Tauri
cay afternoon.
/ Henry f. sho7t, injGrtd in tEe Cham
beriaiu c3lliety di=as,el died al pot;'
iviile On Thursday I'2Gt. He WAS 2
4 Years .. age.
II Daniel jewel. wife rnurseEer, wa
= hanged on Friday in s.. L3u,s.